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Show BY PATH AND TKAIL. 11 fierce tribe resisted the intrusion and settlement in their country of any foreign race. One of the conditions of a treaty made with them by the early Spaniards permitted the exploitation of the mineral wealth of the country. Villages were built and camps established from time to time, but when the Yaquis or Mexicans broke the peace, these camps and towns were left desolate. It is impossible, for one who has not seen Sonora to imagine the ravages wrought in a country for which na ture has done so much. The name " Infelix ' ' unhappy given to it by the early missionary fathers, in sympathy with its misfor tunes, was portentous of its miseries. The ravages of the Yaquis were everywhere visible a few years ago, and in many places, even to- day, the marks of their ven geance tell of their ferocity. By small parties and by secret passes of the mountains they sweep down upon, surprise and attack the lonely traveler or train of trav elers or a village, slaughter the men and carry off the women and children. Then, in their mountain lairs and in the security of isolation, the mothers are separated from their children and the children incorporated into the tribe, and in time become Yaqui mothers and Yaqui warriors. This is the secret of the vitality and perpe tuity of the Yaqui tribe. If it were not for this practice of stealing children and incorporating them into the tribal body, the Yaquis would long ago have been anni hilated. Marcial, Benevidea, Bandalares, prominent Yaqui chiefs, were child captives and many of their council and war chiefs are half- breeds. And now here is an extraordinary, and, perhaps, an unprecedented fact in the history of the human race outside of the Ottoman empire. Of the Indians warring against a civilized and |